About Tufts

Tufts is a leader in American higher education, distinctive for its success as a moderately sized university that excels at research and providing students with a personal experience. Our unique combination of research and liberal arts attracts students, faculty and staff who thrive in our environment of curiosity, creativity and engagement.

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Tufts at a Glance

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Libraries

Tufts' libraries across all campuses provide essential resources, information and technology to support your studies, scholarship and research.

Tisch Library

Digital Collections & Archives

Ginn Library (The Fletcher School)

Hirsh Health Sciences Library

Lilly Music Library

W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library (SMFA)

Webster Family Library (Veterinary)

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Careers

As a Tufts employee, you become part of a community of hard-working, intellectually curious and creative individuals. We offer a wide range of employment opportunities and resources to support Tufts’ diverse academic environment

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Brighter World The Campaign for Tufts

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Innovation

We engender a collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment with the unique potential to make a significant impact on complex local and global challenges.

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New & Notable

Building a Better Robot to Disinfect for COVID and More

Inspired by a hospital stay, a Tufts team creates a better and cheaper ultraviolet C light device for indoor spaces

What Will It Take to Nourish Everyone on the Planet?

Friedman School Professor Patrick Webb explains the challenges and potential solutions to achieving global food and nutrition security
In a First, Scientists Create Tiny Multicellular Organisms That Can Replicate

The latest version of xenobots can swim, heal, record information—and create new versions of themselves
Joyce Cummings Center: New Home for Learning, Research, and Collaboration Is Nearly Open

A preview shows an amiable, vibrant academic building, with vistas of the Medford/Somerville campus and Boston
Preventing Major Data Leaks: A Cybersecurity Explainer

A security researcher talks about the rise in critical data breaches—and what organizations can do to defend their networks

Events

Spotlights

Kaplan Lab

Focuses on biopolymer engineering to understand structure-function relationships, with emphasis on studies related to self-assembly, biomaterials engineering, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Science and Engineering Complex (SEC)

Currently under construction, the new complex will be an integrated teaching and research center on the Medford/Somerville campus featuring state-of-the-art laboratories for undergraduate and graduate students.
Bridge Professorships

Encouraging the recruitment of interdisciplinary faculty whose teaching and research are relevant to multiple academic units.
Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC)

Helps meet the need for updated classrooms, large meeting rooms, teaching labs, research labs, and office space, and includes a café and informal learning spaces.
Water: Systems, Science, and Society (WSSS)

A graduate-level program that takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding water issues worldwide. Provides students with the perspectives and tools to manage water-related problems.
Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction

Promotes the health, strengths and well-being of humans and animals through multidisciplinary partnerships that foster innovative research, education and service programs in human-animal interaction.